CFTC to Host Cryptocurrency CEO Forum to Discuss Digital Asset Market Pilot Program

On June 22, Bitget market data shows Micron Technology was up 5.51% in pre-market trading. In related news, Micron Technology has struck a memory and storage supply deal with Anthropic to advance the next generation of AI at scale.

**NVIDIA Announces Europe’s 35 Supercomputer Expansion, a Year’s Largest** June 22 (Report) — NVIDIA announced on Wednesday that Europe is building or deploying 35 artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) supercomputers across 23 countries and research institutions, marking the region’s largest supercomputer expansion project in the past 12 months. The systems leverage NVIDIA’s Blackwell and Hopper architectures, paired with the CUDA-X, NVIDIA NIM, and AI Enterprise software stacks, to support fields including climate science, medical research, clean energy, and quantum computing. Official statistics show the infrastructure will serve more than 3 million researchers. NVIDIA noted its AI infrastructure has powered over 90% of AI factory deployments in Europe, with cumulative planned or deployed AI computing power totaling roughly 800 exaflops. Key participating institutions include Spain’s Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Germany’s HLRS, Italy’s CINEC

On June 22, Morgan Stanley’s latest report noted that as more Bitcoin miners approach their breakeven points, the Bitcoin mining network is growing more sensitive to price swings, with both hashrate and mining difficulty responding more sharply to fluctuations. The bank’s analysis finds that the six-month “elasticity coefficient” for mining difficulty relative to Bitcoin price changes has climbed to 0.62, meaning hashrate is reacting more quickly to market shifts. Analysts added that Bitcoin has traded below production costs for five straight months, with roughly 20% of miners currently operating at a loss. Facing profit pressure, publicly listed mining firms have ramped up their Bitcoin selling: first-quarter sales alone topped 32,000 BTC, surpassing the full-year total for 2025. As higher-cost mining rigs go offline, network hashrate has fallen, prompting an adjustment to mining difficulty. Morgan Stanley forecasts that as long as Bitcoin remains below its roughly $78,000 producti

June 22 Per monitoring from EmberCN: Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy purchased ~520 BTC last week at roughly $67,068 per unit, totaling about $34.87 million in value. Strategy now holds a total of 847,363 BTC, valued at approximately $55.01 billion, with an average cost of $75,651 per BTC. It reports an unrealized loss of $9.093 billion, equal to a 14.2% deficit. Separately, Ethereum treasury firm Bitmine bought ~52,203 ETH last week at an average price of ~$1,751 per ETH, for a total of roughly $91.43 million. Bitmine’s current holdings stand at 5,672,956 ETH, worth about $10.07 billion, with an average cost of $3,407 per ETH. Its unrealized loss hits $9.32 billion, a 48.2% drop.

June 22: According to Bitget market data, pre-market crypto-related stocks in the U.S. stock market posted broad gains. Specific performances: MSTR rose by 4.19%; COIN advanced by 1.55%; CRCL gained by 1.72%; SBET climbed by 2.27%; BMNR picked up by 1.86%.

Fitch Ratings assigned a 'BBB+' rating to senior unsecured bonds proposed by SpaceX (SPCX.O) on June 22. SpaceX has launched its debut investment-grade bond offering, marking the start of a major fundraising initiative to support its artificial intelligence goals following its record-breaking $75 billion IPO. According to the company’s filing, the senior unsecured notes—contingent on market conditions and other factors—will rank equally with all existing and future unsubordinated debt, liabilities, and other obligations. SpaceX aims to raise at least $20 billion through the offering, with proceeds earmarked to repay a roughly equal-size interim bridging loan that makes up the vast bulk of SpaceX’s $29.1 billion long-term debt.